Before you credit this report too much, consider the following points:

Crunching the Survey Numbers

MeriTalk, on behalf of Splunk, conducted an online survey of 150 Federal and 152 State and Local cyber security pros in March 2015. The report has a margin of error of ±5.6% at a 95% confidence level. (slide 15)

Care to wager that other federal agencies and contractors are not running logging on their networks? I didn’t think so.

Big data techniques, properly understood and applied can lead to valuable insights for cybersecurity. But note the qualifiers, “properly understood and applied…”

The first step towards cybersecurity is recognizing when vendors are taking your money and not improving your IT security.

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